Production ML Engineer Lead - Pipelines & Inference Scale

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Clera is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to join their well-funded AI startup based in San Francisco. This full-time on-site role requires designing and shipping end-to-end machine learning systems, handling model performance, and mentoring other engineers on best practices.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in production environments with strong skills in Python and frameworks like PyTorch or JAX. Work directly with product teams to translate goals into measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied ML engineering experience.
• Experience with large-scale recommender systems.
• Strong understanding of GPU optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship end-to-end ML systems including data pipelines.
• Own model performance in production environments.
• Mentor engineers on ML best practices.

Skills

Applied ML engineering in production environments

Hands-on experience with LLMs

Strong Python fundamentals

Experience with distributed training

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Clera is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to join their well-funded AI startup based in San Francisco. This full-time on-site role requires designing and shipping end-to-end machine learning systems, handling model performance, and mentoring other engineers on best practices.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in production environments with strong skills in Python and frameworks like PyTorch or JAX. Work directly with product teams to translate goals into measurable improvements.